Cultural Studies

India has often been at the centre of debates on and definitions of the postcolonial condition. Offering a challenging new direction for the field,...

The Making of the Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman is intended to be a biographical and critical insight into the work of the potter, painter and pho...

Examines key contemporary Austrian literary texts, films, and memorials that treat Nazism and the Holocaust for what they reveal about the country'...

Based on fieldwork carried out between 1983 and 1999, this is an exploration of contemporary social identities in a little-known region of Turkey''...

Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of po...

From the critically acclaimed Malaysian film Sepet to the on-going box office successes of the films created by Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai, ci...

Gramsci's writings on culture have been hugely influential for western critical thinking during the last forty years. This volume brings together a...

Suburbs and the relationships that sustain them have been subject to tremendous changes in the last fifty years, with changing work patterns, chang...

Sociologists have long noted that dynamism is an essential part of the urban way of life. However, walking as a significant social activity and cru...

Metaphors of money have shaped theories of sexual psychology ever since Enlightenment doctors explained the mind-body as an 'animal economy' whose ...

The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and ar...

Studies representations of women and death by women to see whether and how they differ from patriarchal versions. In Western culture, women are of...

Japanese Religions on the Internet draws attention to how religion is being presented, represented and discussed on the Japanese Internet. Its inte...

India remains a country mired in poverty, with two-thirds of its 1.2 billion people living on little more than a few dollars day. Just as telling, ...

How does structural economic change look and feel? How are such changes normalized? How are these trends represented in movement, in performance, a...

This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years' research and writing, const...

Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the oriental and the ornamental, Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained theory ...

Media Experiences: Engaging with Drama and Reality Television travels across people and popular culture, exploring the pathways to engagement and t...

Published in memory of Ivy L. McClelland, a pioneer-scholar of Spains eighteenth century, this volume of original essays contains, besides an Intro...

Harry Mount's How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours is packed with astonishing facts a...

Fictional character is an ontologically ambivalent category -- at once a formal construct and a quasi-person -- which lies at the heart of the life...

Winter Passages is Robert Brustein's nineteenth book of criticism. It includes his considerations of culture and politics over the past four years ...

Guss, Felix, and Jim Upshaw founded the community of County Line in the 1870s in northwest Nacogdoches County, in deep East Texas. As with hundred...

Northeast of modern-day Mexico City stand the remnants of one of the world''s largest preindustrial cities, Teotihuacan. Monumental in scale, Teoti...

The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topic...

Humans have always been influenced by natural landscapes, and always will be, even as we create ever-larger cities and our developments fundamental...

This volume explores how the interpretation of material from the ancient Near East is enriched through the application of diverse methodological an...

Head Off the Books in this collection of newspaper columns, where J. Peder Zane uses classic and contemporary literature to explore American cultur...

The swearing of oaths is a cultural phenomenon that pervades English history and was remarkably important during the sixteenth century. This mul...

Along the coast of Fife, in villages like Culross and Pittenweem, history records that some women were executed as witches. Nevertheless, the reali...